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pan6467 · 07-11-2005, 08:42 AM

That's just it Roach, both sides are so freaking stuck with their views and unwilling to budge at all that there is nothing but animosity and hatred being spewed.

I mean, when on Thursday, the GOP talking heads spewing hate filled monologues how the bombings were the Left's fault..... that leaves very little to negotiate compromises with.

It's not a "let's do a musical..... Pollyanna...... etc" type attitude I am trying to convey. It is reality.

We are feasting on each other and so busy attacking the other because "they started it and they want it all their way" that the big picture seems to elude everyone. We cannot keep being divided and blaming each other. It's suicidal.

The economy is going into the shitter, we have massive debts, we have an infrastucture and tax base falling apart and we have terrorists feasting on our hatreds of each other.

Goddamn people wake the fuck up. We're in serious trouble and all we can do is point fingers and refuse to even try to negotiate compromises.

Hell, when Voinivich, Dewine and the other senators tried the GOP called them turncoats and are trying to find people to run against Voinivich and Dewine so they won't get re-elected. I mean come on.... we are in some serious shit when a party decides that if one of theirs tries to compromise and that person needs to be run out of office..... some serious warning bells should go off.

We are one serious tragedy away from watching ourselves totally go berserk and destroy each other. And for what? What the fuck is so important that one side feels the need to destroy the country. Abortion? The 10 Commandments being hung in public? Gay Marriage?

What we are doing to ourselves and our nation is far worse than ANYTHING the fucking terrorists can do to us.

When you have Rove or McCain or Limbaugh or Moore spewing nothing but hatred and demanding that we destroy the other side without so much as listening to them, nor can we give them acknowledgements of their good points (AND BOTH SIDES DO HAVE GOOD STANCES ON SOME ISSUES) nor can we even think of trying to compromise..... we are done.

Regardless of what the idiots on the Right say, regardless of what the morons on the Left want to preach........... this country was founded on compromise between the majority and minority and has compromised for the good of the country ever since..... well until now.

Perhaps it's because we are the lone super-power and there is no more boogey-man USSR to hate. Perhaps, because we have no true equal enemy outside we feel the need to feed within.

Heaven forbid both sides agree and work to better the country...... Heaven forbid one side takes the high road and says "fuck it you want to show hate and spew shit.... we won't, we'll be positive and ignore your games. We'll stick to issues and we'll get our fat lazy asses out of the office and into the townhalls and the village squares and maybe we won't have much of an audience at first but when people hear that we have positive ways and we don't use negativity and we don't go down to their level because we BELIEVE in what we say and our issues"..... the people will start coming.

Instead, both sides spew hatred and what that tells me is that neither side truly believes in what they are fighting for..... they are fighting just to be right and prove the other side wrong..... That's fucking insane.... no side is 100% right and no side is 100% wrong and to not even listen to what others say is ridiculous and suiciudal to our society as we know it.

I fucking give up.... if the Right wants to fucking destroy the Left and vice versa and destroying each other is more important than truly bettering the nation..... then fine destroy each other, kill each other off...... maybe in the end the terrorists will show mercy and realize nothing they can do will be worse than what we are doing to ourselves.

07-11-2005, 08:42 AM	#137 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	That's just it Roach, both sides are so freaking stuck with their views and unwilling to budge at all that there is nothing but animosity and hatred being spewed. I mean, when on Thursday, the GOP talking heads spewing hate filled monologues how the bombings were the Left's fault..... that leaves very little to negotiate compromises with. It's not a "let's do a musical..... Pollyanna...... etc" type attitude I am trying to convey. It is reality. We are feasting on each other and so busy attacking the other because "they started it and they want it all their way" that the big picture seems to elude everyone. We cannot keep being divided and blaming each other. It's suicidal. The economy is going into the shitter, we have massive debts, we have an infrastucture and tax base falling apart and we have terrorists feasting on our hatreds of each other. Goddamn people wake the fuck up. We're in serious trouble and all we can do is point fingers and refuse to even try to negotiate compromises. Hell, when Voinivich, Dewine and the other senators tried the GOP called them turncoats and are trying to find people to run against Voinivich and Dewine so they won't get re-elected. I mean come on.... we are in some serious shit when a party decides that if one of theirs tries to compromise and that person needs to be run out of office..... some serious warning bells should go off. We are one serious tragedy away from watching ourselves totally go berserk and destroy each other. And for what? What the fuck is so important that one side feels the need to destroy the country. Abortion? The 10 Commandments being hung in public? Gay Marriage? What we are doing to ourselves and our nation is far worse than ANYTHING the fucking terrorists can do to us. When you have Rove or McCain or Limbaugh or Moore spewing nothing but hatred and demanding that we destroy the other side without so much as listening to them, nor can we give them acknowledgements of their good points (AND BOTH SIDES DO HAVE GOOD STANCES ON SOME ISSUES) nor can we even think of trying to compromise..... we are done. Regardless of what the idiots on the Right say, regardless of what the morons on the Left want to preach........... this country was founded on compromise between the majority and minority and has compromised for the good of the country ever since..... well until now. Perhaps it's because we are the lone super-power and there is no more boogey-man USSR to hate. Perhaps, because we have no true equal enemy outside we feel the need to feed within. Heaven forbid both sides agree and work to better the country...... Heaven forbid one side takes the high road and says "fuck it you want to show hate and spew shit.... we won't, we'll be positive and ignore your games. We'll stick to issues and we'll get our fat lazy asses out of the office and into the townhalls and the village squares and maybe we won't have much of an audience at first but when people hear that we have positive ways and we don't use negativity and we don't go down to their level because we BELIEVE in what we say and our issues"..... the people will start coming. Instead, both sides spew hatred and what that tells me is that neither side truly believes in what they are fighting for..... they are fighting just to be right and prove the other side wrong..... That's fucking insane.... no side is 100% right and no side is 100% wrong and to not even listen to what others say is ridiculous and suiciudal to our society as we know it. I fucking give up.... if the Right wants to fucking destroy the Left and vice versa and destroying each other is more important than truly bettering the nation..... then fine destroy each other, kill each other off...... maybe in the end the terrorists will show mercy and realize nothing they can do will be worse than what we are doing to ourselves. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"